Software

GraffitiCMS Going Open Source – Lee Dumond highlights an announcement from Telligent that GraffitiCMS will be being released under an open source license on 11th December

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The client script loader is cool – Mike Ormond highlights a nice dependency graph of the various parts of the ASP.NET Ajax library, and shows how the script loader makes it easy to get just the bits your need

ASP.NET 4.0 ScriptManager Improvements – Dave Reed talks about the ASP.NET 4.0 ScriptManager, looking at the various new features introduced in the .NET 4 time frame, including Content Delivery Network support, the ability to disable the Microsoft.Ajax requirement, simple assembly name support and ScriptResourceMapping

Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search – Brad Abrams follows on from his PDC talk with a look at adding the search functionality to his PDC demo application, implementing search against the backend data store, along with bookmarkable URLs for search results

Temporary procedures : T-SQL – ‘jamiet’ highlights the ability to create temporary stored procedures in much the same way you can create temporary tables in SQL Server. This is a useful trick for those helper procedures we all write and often forget to remove after use

Going Interactive with the Reactive Extensions – Matthew Podwysocki continues his series on the Reactive Framework with a look at the System.Interactive assembly and how this aims to port much of the functionality of IObservable to IEnumerable via extension methods